Snowflake breach snowballs as more victims, perps, come forward The descending ball of trouble over at Snowflake keeps growing larger, with more victims – and even one of the alleged intruders – coming forward last week. We know the list of Snowflake victims is long – at least 165 targets were caught up in the security failure, threat hunters at Mandiant reported recently – including, it's …
... not for copyright infringement, but for the financial crimes committed in association with that infringement.
That said, "money laundering by concealment" is a law which is an abuse of the English language, as well as government overreach. Not telling the government you got that money in no way makes that money "clean", and hence, should not be considered "money laundering."
Logically, if you fail to report to the government that you got that money, you should be liable for tax evasion, but not for money laundering. But most of us know that the law frequently is not logical, or fair.
USA justice is batshit crazy for a lot of stuff.
Mainly due to their batshit "vote for", way of getting sherrifs and judges, who then have incentives to do batshit things to get votes.
not to mention the political hires put in insane positions of power (see supreme court, that has no controls or oversight, and they mark there own homework, batshit)
Mainly due to their batshit "vote for", sic way of getting sherrifs [sic] and judges
The appointment of state judges varies by state; some elect and some appoint. Federal judges are appointed.
Some states, such as Hawaii, or counties within states, have appointed sheriffs. Alaska has a patchwork system of municipal and borough sheriffs for some areas, while much of the state has no sheriff position. Connecticut (since 2000) does not have sheriffs at all.
The roles and responsibilities of sheriffs in the US vary among states.
incentives to do batshit things to get votes
Sheriffs have a very high incumbency boost — significantly higher than for other elected offices — and consequently are not particularly motivated to "do batshit things to get votes". Sheriffs often leave office only when they decide to step down (to take a position elsewhere or retire), or are forced out by term limits or scandal. While sheriff is in many places a powerful political office and certainly many sheriffs are corrupt or at least of questionable integrity, it's an office which is rarely realistically contested. The same is true of judgeships, to a large extent.
In many places, candidates for elected judicial offices are severely limited in what they're allowed to say while campaigning (one of the rare cases where overt political speech is restricted in the US without having been successfully challenged), and because judicial activity is harder to evaluate than a voting record or executive decisions, judges are elected largely on incumbency, name recognition, or "character" rather than their actual record. Special-interest groups influence the votes to some extent, but their power is generally meager, partly because there are a lot of them and voters are influenced by multiple issues.
That doesn't mean electing sheriffs and judges is a good policy, but the fact is that they're much less subject to the whims of the voters than, say, legislators. Few of the myriad problems with law enforcement and the courts in the US can reasonably be traced to sheriffs or judges pandering to voters.
If CDK pay up, they have no guarantees that a) the Scum actually have keys to undo the damage (plenty of evidence to show most dont bother with that side of things these days), b) that the Scum have not planted another ready backdoor somewhere, to allow them straight back in (likely waiting 6 months, and then breaching under a different name), c) CDK will have painted a nice big bullseye on their back. Everyone in the game now knows that CDK will pay, so they will be the first on the target list of every scumbag ransomware peddler. And as a distributed dealer, mainly serving sales men and mechanics. The next breach will not be far away...
Pay once, and you pay forever...
According to the Department of Justice, the Jetflicks crew operated since 2007 and acquired a massive library of television episodes "larger than the combined catalogs of Netflix, Hulu, Vudu, and Amazon Prime,"
Given that the streaming landscape is hugely fragmented these days which sucks for the customer[0], getting everything in one place sounds exactly what a customer would want
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[0] Why did Europe have to take the worst thing about American cable TV?
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